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[nibl]

I found out how to get sound working on the Asus Eee PC.

First, Thanks to Tempestuous, one of his previous posts got me on the right track for testing, once I knew which module to search for in the forum, i.e. snd-hda-intel.

Here is what to do:

- Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add this line:

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig

- Reboot (saving settings)

- Set volume by clicking menu Multimedia/Puppy Sound Mixer

Puppy should now have audible sound playback


Notes:

I have not tested the microphone yet.

"Master" is the main control for maximum sound output, possibly with "pcm" or "speaker" as a sub control. This depends on the parameter (see below). The parameter used above "3stack-dig" uses master and speaker.

The modules needed are: snd-hda-intel, snd-pcm-oss, snd-mixer-oss, snd-seq-oss. These are loaded by default in Puppy 3.01.

Parameters:
Instead of 3stack-dig, you can try one of the following parameters: 3stack-6ch, 3stack-6ch-dig, 6stack-dig. Note, the parameter "auto" did not work. I did not test "lenovo".

Maybe someone with 6 Channel audio speakers can report on that.

I have only tested this on the 701 4GB model Serial Number 7B series. Please add results for other models or revisions.


Tested on Puppy 3.01. Please report on other versions.

[JustGreg]

I confirmed this does work with Puppy 3.01 on my Eee Pc. It is the same as yours, Model 701. Thanks for the help.

[raffy]

Here's the modprobe.conf lines with Puppy version 2.13:

[tempestuous]

Raffy,
Don't delete anything. Just add that extra line at the end. The "option" line gives additional instructions to the ALSA driver (snd-hda-intel).

[raffy]

Thanks, tempestuous. I have been working on this since last night using different model= but no success so far. I looked at /tmp/bootsysinit.log and found:

[raffy]

Have tried different "model=" parameters and restarted many times using rc.alsa, and the same error message shows.

EDIT I solved the sound problem in breeezy for model 701 by compiling a newer ALSA version. Newer Puppy Linux releases solve the sound driver problem by including the newer ALSA.

[dale5351]

[Lotus Power]

Hi Everyone,

I tried the following insturctions which were (very helpfully) posted earlier:

Edit /etc/modprobe.conf and add this line:

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-dig

- Reboot (saving settings)

- Set volume by clicking menu Multimedia/Puppy Sound Mixer


But I still have no sound! Does anyone have any other ideas? The above got the speaker icon onto the taskbar, but nothing more!

Thank you!

LP

[renuvio]

Hello everybody:

This is my first post in this place.

Puppy Linux is great.

Let me say i have a similar problem.

I found yesterday that sound was not available when i was still running v. 3.01 from a USB pendrive.

Alsaconf detected the soundcard, but it fails after try to insert snd-hda-intel.

I tried the solution proposed in this thread, without success. Then what i did was to copy /lib/modules/2.6.21.7/kernel/sound from a system booted from cd over the files of the no-sound system; rebooted, running again alsaconf, and that works. I have sound again, and i'm not sure what was the problem, maybe the files were corrupted.

Thanks for let me share this with all of us.

[wrybread]

Thanks, this worked on my Asus 1000H. Small note: I had to run the Alsa wizard before it would work. And in XMMS I had to tell it to use the Alsa mixer.

It's funny though, I could swear the speakers sounded much better and louder when I was using Windows. But alas that harddrive is now crashed so I can't confirm.

Sounds great through headphones.

[tempestuous]